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1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal i. 4 Bayes... I Transverse it; that is, if it be Prose, put it into Verse, (but that takes up some time) if it be Verse, put it into Prose. Johns. Methinks, Mr. Bayes, that putting Verse into Prose should be call'd Transprosing. Bayes. By my troth, a very good Notion, and hereafter it shall be so.

1672 A. Marvell (title) The Rehearsal transpros'd: or, Animadversions upon a late Book, entituled, a Preface, shewing What Grounds there are of Fears and Jealousies of Popery.

1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 4 What Miracles men of Art can do by Transversing Prefaces and Transprosing Playes.

1682 N. Tate & J. Dryden 2nd Pt. Absalom & Achitophel 14 Instinct he follows and no farther knows, For to write Verse with him is to Transprose.

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 194. ⁋ 1 I shall transprose it, to use Mr. Bays's Term.

1732 H. Fielding Old Debauchees Prol. Old worn-out Jokes..Transvers'd from Prose, perhaps transpros'd from Rhimes.

1826 Museum Criticum I. 411 Babrius versified them [Æsop's apologues]: various persons, as Mr. Smith says in the Rehearsal, transprosed the choliambics of Babrius.

1673 S'too him Bayes 4 Godsookers you'l spoil all my Transprosal.

1673 Answer to Seasonable Disc. 19 Has not the judicious Transproser a long Paragraph of the furious temper of these Clergy Men?

1718 J. Trapp tr. Virgil Æneis (1735) I. Pref. 81 Tho' the Translating of Poems into Prose is a strange, modern Invention; yet the French Transprosers are so far in the right; because their Language will not bear Verse.

1673 S'too him Bayes 34 I..bid your Transprosership heartily farewell.